WCL 2023: Division 4A

Rules: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2023-rules

Team contacts: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/wcl-2023-team-contacts

All match results are preliminary and indicative (occasionally updated by hand). Consult https://chessteams.info/ for live results and rankings.

Two teams promote to Division 3.

Results may change due to ex-post corrections (see rules) until the cut-off dates on September, 30th (for relegation) and December, 31st (for the final ranking).

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* 1476425: bord #3 of New Delhi is an irregular foreign flag player

Details about the start of round 1 will be published in an announcement item tomorrow.

Aberdeen v Delhi challenge sent

https://www.chess.com/clubs/match_challenge/2541779

My understanding according to the rules a team can have 1 foreign player in for each cumulative block of four players , these my be incomplete blocks of 4. Therefore in this specific case Isle of Man have 6 players giving them an allowance of 2 foreign flag players, they have 3 IoM flagged and 1 UK flagged player all counted as the home country, and 2 foreign flags which is allowed in the rules. Can @rainpiper confirm this. 

• The number of foreign flag players is limited to 1 in each cumulative (possibly incomplete) block of 4 players (i.e. max 1 player on boards 1-4, max 2 players on boards 1-8, max 3 players on boards 1-12 etc.)

@Chambro1970: It's a maximum of 1 foreign-flag player on boards 1-4. Isle of Man has two foreign-flag players on boards 3 and 4. The player on board 4 is therefore irregular and his/her games are counted as lost.

Still, given the overall result of this match, this is irrelevant.

@RainPiper & @ Chambro1970

just noticed this thread - I was not aware of this "foreign-flag player" rule, until now.

from above comments, it seems I need to make sure IOM games have only 1 "foreign-flag player" on boards 1-4 & another 1 "foreign-flag players" on boards 5-8.

as IOM usually have to field 5 players per game, 5th board player can be "foreign-flag player".

have I got this right & how as IOM team admin do I enforce/ensure this?

never removed a player from a game before, but take it that's what I have to do?

@dfhunter:

Your interpretation is correct: in a five-player-team two foreign-flag-players are allowed: one on boards 1-4 and the second on board 5.

You can either remove the player yourself from your team. Or (preferably) exchange messages with the respective player and explain him/her the rules, so that s/he can take them into account the next time him/herself.

@RainPiper - thanks for the reply, will apply that rule in future games

ps - thinking about how to enforce this rule, players can join a game up to the start time/day.

to remove/ban players on last day is asking for problems, most players are only online to play & don't read rules etc..

pps - I'm a Him by the way.

Bologna has sent its challenge to Team Cuq-Toulza for round 5:

https://www.chess.com/clubs/match_challenge/2569497

update 24/2: the challenge was not accepted and has now expired. Our opponent is not answering.  

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Is there a way to see the league standings? 

See first post in this thread: https://chessteams.info/

Team Cuq-Toulza has been disabled. All remaining Cuq-Toulza matches are cancelled.